Summer in Les 2 Alpes
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Les Deux Alpes has one of the most vibrant summer's of any ski resort in France. The Glacier at 3200m is the largest skiable glacier in Europe and has one of the best parks in France.
There are also excellent trails for mountain biking; cross country and downhill, a bike park and road cycling.
There's swimming, tennis, volleyball, deval karts, mountain boarding, trampolining, rafting, paragliding, football, skating, ice skating, climbing, hiking, golf and more. Les 2 Alpes really does have it all.
Places to see in ( Les Deux Alpes - France )
Places to see in ( Les Deux Alpes - France )
Les Deux Alpes is as bald as Bruce Willis – there’s not a tree to be seen not a bush, not a blade of grass, just a wide-open monochromatic landscape that rolls up and away from the town for 10Km. When there’s good snow, this is a lot of fun, though when it’s actually falling, making out where you’re going can be tricky! A resort that’s always welcomed snowboarders, Les Deux Alpes has long been a favourite with Brits and it’s easy to see why. In the summer it is THE place to head; the park high up on the glacier at 3200m is beyond huge.
The town itself is a mixture of old and new buildings, all strung out ribbon-like along the floor of a valley that sits on a plateau overlooking the village of Venosc. From the old-town end, the views of the titular “two alps” are fantastic, and there’s a decent mix of places to stay, with something to suit all budgets.
The strange thing about the resort is that it feels sort of upside down. The glacier at the top is very flat and often wind-blown, the mid-section of the mountain has most of the best intermediate terrain, while stupidly steep and sometimes icy black runs are at the bottom – leading you back into the resort’s base.
Freestyle-wise, Les Deux Alpes has the lot: a series of park lines for different abilities, a pipe, various ‘Slide Zones’ and a boardercross. Most of the action is situated in ‘Freestyle Land’, serviced by the Toura, Lac Noire and Envers lifts. The main park is situated by the Toura chair at 2600m and moves down from the glacier (usually in December) when there’s sufficient snow; by mid-January it is in full flow. A local’s top tip is to take your lunch to the top of the chair, hike for a while in the same direction and enjoy some spectacular views.
To your right as you go up, there’s a short rope tow allowing easy access to a few of the smaller hits and jibs, as well as the competition big air kicker. From the top of the chair you can take the boardercross, or enter the park proper. There are two options – a slopestyle course with well-sculpted (and sizeable!) kickers and rails to the right, or to the left, a few smaller hits and jibs leading down to the 120m-long halfpipe with its 5m walls.
To the extreme right, there’s usually one mega-booter, with a tabletop of around 25m – strictly for French rudeboys and bold seasonnaires only! All this is finished off with the ‘cool zone’: a BBQ area where music blasts from turntables. Under the glacier chair are two ‘Slide Zones’ which, while short, are great if you want to practise banked turns at speed without the out-of-control fools who block up the main boardercross.
Check out ‘the Dome’ for freshies, and routes off the 6-man chair, La Fee, for steep, deep and testing riding. There’s some hardcore off-piste around the Clot de Chalance, accessed from the ‘Serre Pallas’ run, but you’ll need to have a guide to show you the routes. From the bottom of the Super Diable you can head left out of the area for some cool riding before picking up the Diable piste much further down. Ask in the tourist information about the free off-piste chats and mini-tours.
The completely un-pisted neighbouring resort of La Grave is something of a freerider’s paradise, populated by bearded old men with carabinas jangling from their belts. There’s only one lift – a rickety old cable car – but there’s an infinite number of routes down the hill. However, many of these end in large, icy cliffs, so again you’ll need a guide! To access it, take the glacier T-bar to the top, then a further drag, which will deposit you next to a waiting snow-cat. Grab one of the handles on the rope behind it, and enjoy the tow across. Unfortunately, the cats only tow you one-way, so when you’re done shredding pow, make sure you’ve still got enough energy for the lung-busting hike back over – at nearly 4,000m above sea-level
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Places to see in ( Grenoble - France ) Grenoble Bastille Cable Car
Places to see in ( Grenoble - France ) Grenoble Bastille Cable Car
The Grenoble-Bastille cable car, also affectionately known as Les bulles, is a cable car in the French city of Grenoble. It links the city centre with the Bastille, a former fortress overlooking the city. In July 2017, the metropolis of Grenoble installed a webcam on the roof of the upper station of the cable car, offering Internet users a 220° panoramic photograph of the city every 20 minutes, with several definitions of images. Thanks to the archiving of these photographs that have been available since July 13, 2017, visitors to the terrace of the Geologists and the belvedere Vauban can see each other in the photos.
The line was inaugurated on 29 September 1934. In 1934 cable cars were no longer an innovation. The cable car at the Aiguille du Midi had been in existence for ten years, and the one at Salève for two; by that time Europe had a sizeable number. Even in Grenoble, a cable transportation system existed between Mount Jalla and the area of Porte de France since 1875, used to transport limestone from the quarries to the cement industry.
In Grenoble, the desire for openness and expansion of the city led its mayor at the time, Paul Mistral, to successfully organize the Exposition internationale de la houille blanche (International exposition of white coal) in 1925, and subsequently to acquire land for the city's future airport. In 1930, together with the vice-chairman of the chamber of tourism, Paul Michoud, he planned the world's first urban cable car in the city. The site of the Bastille overlooking the Grenoble area was naturally chosen to become a tourist attraction. The site, fortified a century earlier by General Haxo, had a natural promontory offering a 360° panoramic view.
The architect, Jean Benoit, designed the stations. The work was entrusted to the Franco-German consortium Bleichert, Neyret-Beylié, Para and Milliat. The choice of the location for thevupper station was not a problem; it had to be close to the barracks of the dungeon, which was transformed into a restaurant. The site of the lower station was between the Jardin des dauphins and the Jardin de ville. It was finally decided that the lower station would be placed near the Jardin de ville, on the banks of the Isère. Its architectural design took elements of the Tour de l'Isle on the opposite bank, and a covered bridge was constructed across the road. In 1959, a circular extension was added to the lower station, and was used as a waiting room with a capacity of one hundred people.
At its inception in 1934, the cable-car used two blue dodecagonal (12-sided) cabins, with a capacity of 15 persons each, including operator. The cabins were made by the German firm Bleichert, and operated on the principle of back and forth: one rose while the other descended, each on independent cables.
In the foreground is the Isère river, and behind that the Drac river. The straight avenue is the 8 km-long Cours Jean Jaurès, which finishes at the Place Hubert Dubedout. In the background are the Vercors mountains, and in front of the Isère the Chartreuse mountains (to which the Bastille belongs).
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A full day skiing at Les Deux Alpes! short video for jimmy and his daughter spending the day together on a sunny warm day, visiting various locations on the mountain, such as Pano bar, les 2 alpes snowpark and different pistes.
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Projet de liaison (téléphérique) entre l'Alpe d'Huez et les 2 Alpes
Une liaison entre la station de l'Alpe d'Huez et sa voisine des 2 Alpes pourrait voir le jour dans les prochaines années. La vidéo ci-dessous réalisée par le cabinet de maitrise d'oeuvre Kaliblue (filiale france de Dianeige) vous donne un aperçu de l'hypothétique liaison entre les deux stations Iséroises. Le temps de trajet serait de 18 minutes, les gares de départ/arrivée seraient implantées à environ 2100m d'altitude. Ce projet, d'un budget de 60 millions d'euros pourrait être validé avant 2019 pour une ouverture en 2021.
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La grotte de glace des Deux-Alpes vendredi 13 août 2004
La grotte de glace des Deux-Alpes vendredi 13 août 2004